Sunday, April 29, 2018

What the "lessons of Libya" look like outside the FOX News/Republican ration and (yes) Hillary Clinton bubble

Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi made a deal with the Cheney-Bush Administration in 2003 to give up Libya's nuclear weapons and other unconventional weapons programs.Less than 12 years later, the Obama Administration at the urging of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton backed a regime change operation with included direct US, British, and French military intervention, after which Gaddafi would up dead, lynch-murdered after being anally raped with a bayonet.

Matt Shuham reports in Raising Eyebrows, Bolton Says US Has ‘Libya Model’ In Mind For North Korea TPM 04/29/2018

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said last year that Kim “has watched, I think, what has happened around the world relative to nations that possess nuclear capabilities and the leverage they have and seen that having the nuclear card in your pocket results in a lot of deterrence capability.”

“The lessons that we learned out of Libya giving up its nukes,” he added, “is, unfortunately: If you had nukes, never give them up. If you don’t have them, get them.”

And Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), the retiring chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has regularly referred to the lessons Kim learned from Libya: “He views having deliverable nuclear weapons as his ticket to dying as an old man in his bed. He saw what happened with Gadhafi. Gadhafi’s a dead man now because he gave up his nuclear weapons,” he told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos last week.

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